As Beege would say, call the WAAHMUBULANCE! According to ABC News, "medical and legal experts" are complaining that The Science™ contradicts President Trump's Executive Order that defines sex as dimorphic rather than open-ended.
Trump did a no-no: he asserted that the term "woman" has an actual definition and isn't some vague, undefined thing with changing definitions.
On his first day back in office on Monday, Pres. Trump issued an executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize a person's sex assigned at birth. https://t.co/Q6MqS9yii6
— ABC News (@ABC) January 23, 2025
Perhaps, ABC, this is why Americans no longer trust experts.
On his first day back in office on Monday, President Trump issued an executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize a person's sex assigned at birth, limit the definition of a "male" or "female" to their reproductive cells and potentially withhold federal funding from programs that acknowledge transgender people or "gender ideology."
Medical and legal experts say the executive order rejects the reality of sexual and gender diversity, and are concerned about the implications it will have for intersex, nonbinary and transgender Americans.
I know that it will shock you that the people who cannot define sex as anything but "assigned at birth" still refuse to acknowledge that sex is a real thing. I just assumed that once Trump signed his EO all the crazies would wake up and agree with him. At least, ABC apparently did, since they seemed to think that alphabet ideologists disagreeing with Trump was newsworthy.
Anti-transgender themes were central to the Trump campaign. In the months leading up to the 2024 election, the campaign and Republican groups spent millions on anti-trans television ads. Trump also promised to restrict access to gender-affirming care and transgender participation in sports.
Trump's executive order declares sex as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female" and states that "gender identity" cannot be included in the definition of "sex," and that "sex" and "gender" cannot be used interchangeably.
The executive order declares there are only "two sexes, male and female" and defines a "female" as "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." The order defines "male" as "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell."
In other words, the Trump administration has discovered something called "genetics," which apparently is not yet well known in the legal and medical community despite the wide use of DNA tests in both professions.
I learned in the article that biological sex is not really a thing.
"This one is shockingly out of step with what we know from science," Kellan E. Baker, executive director of the Institute for Health Research & Policy at health services network Whitman-Walker, told ABC News in an interview.
Baker noted that we're accustomed to thinking of sex "as a fairly simple, binary, immutable thing," but said science tells us it's not that simple.
"Sex is not a singular, binary, immutable trait," he said. "It is, in fact, a complex cluster of multiple traits, some of which align with each other and sometimes some of which do not align with each other."
Blah blah blah. Same old, same old. Heard it all before, and the Science™ we are once again being sold is as solid as the 6' social distancing requirement.
The Pravda Media still hasn't gotten the memo that the long national nightmare of the Biden administration is over, nor that quoting one or two activists as representing "experts" doesn't cut it anymore.
Jenny Pizer, chief legal officer at LGBTQ civil rights group Lambda Legal, told ABC News her organization is preparing for legal action against the executive order. She argues the order could force agencies to no longer recognize transgender or intersex people by restricting funding that promote "gender ideology."
There is your "legal expert."
The article ends with the obligatory "Trump is an anti-science meanie" who wants to harm people, without once acknowledging any of the arguments not made by activists but rather by people who live in the real world. You would think that on a controversial topic you might get a quote or two from somebody other than an alphabet activist. But this isn't news; it's propaganda.
"We'll continue to stand with Dana and all intersex, nonbinary, and transgender people to defend their right to identity documents that accurately identify who they are, and their equal protection rights against targeting and exclusion by their own government," it said in a statement posted to its website on Monday.
Trump also implemented policies or took positions that adversely affected the LGBTQ community in his first term. He banned some transgender people from serving in the military, repealed Obama-era non-discrimination health care policy and advocated against employment protection for LGBTQ workers before the Supreme Court.
The tactics used by these "journalists" have been losing their effectiveness, and along with that, the Pravda Media has lost credibility. Fewer and fewer people take any of them seriously. As important as it is for us to keep hammering away at their credibility, I have to say that our greatest allies in this endeavor are the "news" organizations themselves.
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